From Channel One’s middle school broadcast November 23, 2010.
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Care Bears on Fire burn up school time with plug.
How Channel One News cleverly advertises Redbull energy drink to middle school students.
On January 26, 2011 Channel One News had a feature story that had nothing to do with the news. It was a “Road To Glory” segment which is sponsored by the U.S. Army who airs recruitment ads on the program. This story is about how a stunt pilot named Kirby Chambliss who participates in...
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Why am I listening to We The Kings?
Channel One News is watched by as many as 6 million secondary school students each school day. Teachers are often too busy to watch the show with students. Teachers also don’t have time to discuss the non-commercial and commercial content of the show. Therefore there is little or no chance for teachers to deconstruct...
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New Hope provides little hope for Channel One News and advertisers
This is the 2010-11 bell schedule for a small Mississippi middle school. They say timing is everything in comedy. Timing is also important to the kiddie marketers at Channel One. Channel One’s contract with schools requires schools to show the Channel One News program “between the bells.” That means the program has to be...
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Channel One does its part to promote MTV’s pornographic “Skins”
From Jim Metrock: Let’s go through this sordid situation step by step. 1. There is a terrible new show on MTV called “Skins.” The Parents Television Council calls Skins “the most dangerous program ever” for children.” Here is one article about the show. Just type “MTV Skins” in a search engine and you’ll...
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Channel One News is Number Zero for advertising this movie
From Channel One’s website channelone.com. January 24, 2011 There is no MPAA rating label on movies advertised on Channel One’s site. There’s a reason for that. It hurts sales. This is a PG-13 movie. Channel One News promised school boards in 2000 they would cease advertising PG-13 movies to middle school students. That meant...
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Explicit content musician plugged on Channel One News
RJD2 He was born Ramble John Krohn aka RJD2. This hip-hop artist and producer likes publicity stills with blood on his face. From Jim Metrock: Let’s take this one step at a time. 1 Here’s a CD by RJD2 called “The Colossus.” Although it does not have a parental warning on its cover it...
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Shelby Holliday having fun on camera. Taxpayers’ money burns.
Shelby Holliday wastes class time for up to six million unfortunate schoolchildren. Channel One News January 20, 2011 SCRIPT HEY GUYS.IT’S THURSDAY JANUARY 20TH. SHELBY HOLLIDAY HERE IN MY ARMSTRONG MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT COUNCIL T-SHIRT. BIG SALUTE TO THE CREW FROM RAYNE, LOUISIANA FOR SENDING THIS IN. CHANNEL ONE NEWS STARTS RIGHT...
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Email to the Vestavia Hills Board of Education: from a stakeholder
January 19, 2011 from Jim Metrock <[email protected]> to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] cc “Jamie R. Blair” <[email protected]>, [email protected] date Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:55 PM subject from a stakeholder words The Board believes that an informed public is vital to the success and support of public education. The Board of Education recognizes that...
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Academics meant more to Bartlett HS than Channel One News
6+1=7, right? January 26, 2010 • written by Jessica Ferrell Filed under News Nearly everyone on campus has heard the rumors that BHS is moving to a “seven-period school day” in the fall of 2010. Well, the rumors are true. Sort of. After Shelby County Schools became a part of the Tennessee Diploma...
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Montgomery Advertiser: Think the ‘BCS 15’ are bad? Think again
Think the ‘BCS 15’ are bad? Think again by Josh Moon January 16, 2011 We have a few problems around this state. We’re essentially broke, with a large budget shortfall. Our schools, while improving, are still well below average. And the health of the state’s citizens would be considered average only in a Third...
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Dothan Eagle: Ticket fever
Editorial: Ticket fever By Dothan Eagle editorial Published: January 11, 2011 “But several lawmakers took advantage of the offer of tickets at “face value” – the per-seat “ family” price offered to high-dollar university boosters. Perhaps they convinced themselves that paying for something of value removes any perception that they’re exploiting their public office...
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Montgomery Advertiser: Special ticket access wrong
Advertiser Editorial: Special ticket access wrong JANUARY 14, 2011 All Auburn fans who had to shell out a thousand bucks or more for a ticket to the BCS national championship game and all fans who couldn’t get tickets at any price are justified in being upset with elected officials who used their positions...
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Huntsville Times: Ticket perks for the privileged
EDITORIAL: Ticket perks for the privileged January 14, 2011 By John Peck, The Huntsville Times HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ Unless you’ve been on Mars, everyone knows how scarce tickets were to Monday’s BCS national title game between Auburn and Oregon. Tickets were available, but at a very premium price. Even nosebleed seats were $1,500 apiece. Other...
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The BCS 15
All quotes from the Huntsville Times. http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/01/some_legislators_state_officia.html Ford: “I know they offered tickets to other people who were not legislators.” “I could have found tickets. If she (Fulford) had given me something as a deal, I would not have accepted it.” Morton: “I never asked Auburn for free tickets and Auburn never offered me...
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Introducing the BCS 15
Some legislators, state officials got special treatment from Auburn on BCS bowl tickets Wednesday, January 12, 2011 By Bob Lowry, The Huntsville Times MONTGOMERY – In what ticket resellers called the highest priced college football ticket ever, 13 Alabama legislators and two state officials were given special access to buy multiple tickets to the BCS...
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Fast Company: “Alone Together”: An MIT Professor’s New Book Urges Us to Unplug
http://www.fastcompany.com/1716844/alone-together-an-mit-professors-new-book-urges-us-to-unplug?# In her new book, an MIT professor shares her ambivalence about the overuses of technology, which, she writes, “proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.” By David Zax – January 13, 2011, Fast Company Sherry Turkle, has been an ethnographer of our technological world for three decades, hosted all the while...
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Legislators get special access to buy Auburn championship tickets at face value
Published: Thursday, January 06, 2011By Bob Lowry, The Huntsville Times MONTGOMERY – Twenty-six state legislators, including Sen. Paul Sanford, R-Huntsville, and Sen. Shadrack McGill, R-Woodville, were given special access to buy tickets to the Southeastern Conference Championship game at face value. The general public, and many long-time Auburn University season-ticket holders weren’t able to buy...
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Birmingham News: Try as it might, Auburn can’t offer a valid defense of a ticket policy that allowed lawmakers and other state officials to buy tickets to the SEC and BCS championship football games
Published: Friday, January 07, 2011 By Birmingham News editorial board Trying to defend Cam Newton might be easier than defending Auburn’s ticket policy when it comes to Alabama lawmakers. At least the Alabama Crimson Tide shut down the Heisman Trophy winner for a half before he led Auburn to a comeback victory for the...
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Tangled mess of ads and “news”
Another movie plug: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPv-fXo7PE0
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